by Robin Bravender E&E News reporter The Trump transition team has filled out the ranks of its energy and environmental agency landing teams with fierce critics of major climate regulations. After a slow start in getting transition teams up and running inside energy and environmental agencies, the transition announced a slew of new team members [...]
The President-Elect’s Transition team named me and others to the EPA Transition Landing Team today. This will upset some of you and will please others. My approach, and that of the entire transition team, is to be highly professional as we seek the information the transition team needs to create its action plans. Our job [...]
Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue XII: Summer 2016. Click headlines for the full article. Documents Illuminate AGs Politicized Climate Campaign Against Exxon by Chris Horner, Senior Legal Fellow, as appearing in RealClear Energy On Oct. 13, a federal court in Ft. Worth, Texas ruled that Massachusetts Attorney General [...]
by Matthew Hardin, FME Counsel When Attorneys General from seventeen states banded together in a political crusade to “investigate” and threaten to prosecute those who disagree with their climate change agenda, E&E Legal decided to pull back the curtains to expose what the states were really looking for, and what might have spurred these investigations, [...]
by Valerie Richardson Washington Times aA court has ordered New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to turn over documents related to a multistate confidentiality agreement on climate change investigations. New York Acting Supreme Court Justice Henry F. Zwack ruled that Mr. Schneiderman has 30 days to comply with the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s May 5 request [...]
by Chris White The Daily Caller Democratic mega donor Tom Steyer is signaling he might be considering taking a crack at the White House in 2020, Politico reported Monday. The billionaire’s decision to pivot from discussing local and state politics in California to talking more broadly about American politics has prompted the media to report [...]
RESTON, VA – The Media Research Center (MRC) announces the launch of its new documentary titled, Collateral Damage: Forgotten Casualties of the Left’s War on Coal. Several organizations, including, Americans for Tax Reform, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Cornwall Alliance, E&E Legal, and The Heartland Institute, have joined the MRC’s effort to tell the story the liberal [...]
For Immediate Release: November 16, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 Washington, D.C. – Today, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) was forced to file an open records suit with exhibits against yet another “Green 20” state attorney general (AG), this time Virginia’s Mark Herring. Herring was an early signatory to the aborted political coalition among activist AGs [...]
by Craig Richardson, E&E Legal Executive Director As Appearing in Inside Business Daily Billionaire Tom Steyer vowed to make climate change a major issue in the 2016 election. His plan was to link arms with the AFL-CIO to mobilize the Democratic base and recruit Millennial voters to rise up to defeat Donald Trump and put [...]
by Donald van der Vaart, Secretary of North Carolina’s Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources As Appearing in The Hill President-elect Donald Trump has named Myron Ebell to head up his transition team for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The news was met with name-calling, even though Ebell agrees with the same position taken by a former [...]
